[quote=@Dinh AaronMk]
As it turns out, going into college with the same mentality as I had in high-school did not work and I got a rude awakening when my financial aid was revoked.
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The crazy thing is, I got good grades in college. It was actually sort of strange, I was basically self educated after about 11 years old (that's a story of its own) and got a GED when I was 16, but grades was never an issue. I didn't even really have to study much except for math, though even that is partly because math grades hang so heavy on turning in homework. 

But I come from poor folk where all my life the people surrounding me saw a college degree as sort of a magical thing. There aren't many college educated people in my family; the few with Bachelors Degrees besides myself mostly got them when they were in their forties, otherwise it's all high-school degrees, trade school certificates, and two year degrees. So where I screwed up wasn't grades, that was easy. It was making some sort of concessions to actually turn the degree into a career. After all, the working class poor folk mythos is that you get a college degree of any sort and shit is taken care of. Of course, I also started college in 2007, so my college career happens to match up with the recession in an ugly way. But all the networking and internship stuff? Didn't think it was pertinent.